- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 17:02:19 +0200
- To: "Stewart Brodie" <stewart.brodie@antplc.com>
- Cc: "Web API WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:08:37 +0200, Stewart Brodie <stewart.brodie@antplc.com> wrote: > In the last paragraph on send(data) (i.e. just above the start of the bit > about the abort() method), there is a statement (which is missing the > word "header" at the end, but that's not the point I wish to raise) : > > "it MUST NOT automatically set the Accept." > > I think that this is a bad idea, because some servers fail to deliver > resources in the absence of the Accept header where the resource has > multiple variants available. Some older versions of IIS are known to > fail in this manner. There may be others that I'm not aware of too, > obviously. I see. What you're stating seems also in line with browser behavior so I have changed this to make Accept handling identical to that of Accept-Language. Unless it is specified through setRequestHeader() the user agent should provide it. http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/ > [...] I have not followed your request of requiring a particular value as that does not seem in line with implementations and seems needlessly restrictive. I hope that's ok. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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